Word Salad Poetry Magazine, Volume XIX, No. I: Winter 2013

Bruce Whealton is only one of three editors for Word Salad Poetry Magazine, which is a collection of poetry written by others. The Editors for Word Salad Poetry Magazine are Bruce Whealton, Jean Arthur Jones and MJD Algera. Bruce Whealton is the publisher and web developer for the online version of this publication.

Bruce Whealton began to think of himself as a poet beginning back in 1992, when he shared his poetry at a poetry reading for the first time. This was at the Coastline Convention Center overlooking the Cape Fear River, in Wilmington, NC. He began Word Salad as an online poetry magazine in 1995.

Bruce M. Whealton received his Bachelor's Degree, in Electrical Engineering, specializing in Computer Engineering, from Georgia Institute of Technology in December of 1989. He worked for a number of years at Digital Equipment Corporation in MA prior to the growth and popularity of the Internet. Following that job, he worked with the National Science Foundation developing a VAX-based network programmed in the C language. Since the start of the web and the internet, Bruce was designing and developing websites in various capacities. His first website was an online poetry magazine called Word Salad Poetry Magazine which is still in operation on the web here. Visit that site to see how it has grown. He also is a poet and writer when he is not doing these other activities. Bruce brings his creativity and technical skills to designing and developing web sites.

Bruce Martin Whealton, Jr. was born in 1966, to parents were Bruce Whealton and Kathleen Murphy Whealton. On November 5, 2011 Bruce Married Elnaz Rezaei Ghalechi in Ankara, Turkey. My parents inspired me to excel in certain ways from the beginning. I'm talking about the beginning, specifically. In the early years we are first challenged in school.

Bruce Whealton completed the Webmaster Certificate Program at NC State's Computer Training Unit a few years back. However, most of his practical skills come from working in this field and self-paced, self-directed studies. Like many fields, continuing education is a must to keep up with the evolving technologies in this field. Bruce reports, "I've found the training library at Lynda.com, Pluralsight and InfiniteLearning to be a very valuable assets along with numerous texts on a wide-range of topics in this field." Over the years, Bruce Whealton has completed many, many online courses covering various tools, programming languages, markup languages and more. This includes keeping up with the latest technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3 which bring new capabilities and features to the web, for a more modern, interactive and engaging web experience.

Bruce also has seen his poems published in:
- The Houston Literary Review
- The Talon - UNCW poetry and prose publication
- Death Head Grin
- Calliope Nerve
- The Horror Zine and the Horror Zine's associated Anthology "And Now the Nightmare Begins: The Horror Zine."
- Aphelion: The Webzine of Science Fiction and Fantasy - 9 of my poems
- Venus Rising
- Childe Bryde
- the thin edge of staring
- lines written w/a razor
- Gravity Hill - by St. Andrews Press
- Chance Magazine
- lunatic chameleon
- Mystic Prophet
- The Anthology entitled "Simple Vows," which was put together by folks from St. Andrews College.
In the not too distant past he placed in the Robert Roarke Poetry contest with a Haiku piece.